BOYS' SOCCER: Waynesboro dominates Spring Grove, 6-0

The Waynesboro Indians had their best offensive effort of the season, thrilling the home crowd with a 6-0 victory over the Spring Grove Rockets Monday night.

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Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro, PA

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Posted Oct. 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Posted Oct. 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM

WAYNESBORO — The Waynesboro Indians had their best offensive effort of the season, thrilling the home crowd with a 6-0 victory over the Spring Grove Rockets Monday night.

After taking a 2-0 lead in the opening half, the Indians (5-6) shocked the Rockets with a four-goal outburst in just four minutes and 15 seconds early in the second half.

The Indians played without starting goalkeeper Ben Lochstampfor, who suffered a concussion in last Thursday’s game at Gettysburg.

It’s not known at this time when he’ll return, according to coach Brian Stum.

In his place, ninth-grader James Barr worked between the posts for the Indians.

“This is James’ first year ever playing soccer,” Stum related. “He never played keeper before. Ben and Chris (Deavers) worked with him and brought him a long way.”

It was a good game for Barr to get comfortable in a varsity role as the offense and defense did a good job keeping Spring Grove (3-10) from creating many threats.

As a result, Waynesboro had 25 shots, 15 on goal, to four and zero for Spring Grove.

The Indians enjoyed a 6-3 advantage in corner kicks. Barr didn’t have to make a save, while the two Spring Grove keepers combined for nine.

Waynesboro went on the attack from the outset of the game and never let up as Spring Grove found itself defending the net the entire night.

The Indians started the second half with heavy pressure from Ethan Mohn, Quinton Perry and Camry Huff.

Then, the scoring began.

First, Mohn connected from 12 yards into the lower left corner with 35:14 remaining.

The crowd didn’t have time to settle back into their seats before Huff gave the Indians a 4-0 lead with his second score of the night. Huff collected a pass from Perry, took time to get open and placed a short shot into the lower right corner at 34:22.

With 32 minutes to go, Mason Benchoff picked off a rebound off a Spring Grove defender, placing the ball in the left corner from point blank range.

The final score came at 30:59 when John Atkinson drove the ball all the way to the net while being hounded by Spring Grove defenders, and deposited the ball into the right corner.

Of the scoring barrage, Stum noted, “It was nice and put us in a comfort zone.”

Waynesboro played out the remainder of the game with numerous opportunities, but couldn’t connect again.

Among the close calls were a shot by Jared Lourden that hit the crossbar and several attempts by Conor Short, including one that the goalie deflected off the crossbar for a corner kick.

Page 2 of 2 - In the first half, Waynesboro made things difficult for Spring Grove from the outset on the work of Ochoa, Benchoff, Atkinson and Huff.

It didn’t take the Indians long to put the first goal on the board as Huff claimed his first of the night with a 20-yard straight-on shot into the lower right corner at 34:38. Sawyer Clever was awarded an assist.

The second score of the half came at 19:26 as the speedy Ochoa raced in from the left and collected a feed from Perry, ripping a short shot into the lower right corner.

As the game progressed, Stum went to his bench often and received some nice movement from Kurt Schlosser, Pat Minnich, Lourden, John Whittington, Drew Barrett, Cody Motz, Ryan Painter, Matt Yoder and Brendan Taber.

“I thought we did well,” Stum said of the different combinations

With a busy schedule, Stum was happy to use a lot of players.

“We have the gauntlet to run the next two weeks,” he said. “We have eight games in 14 days.”